overgeeked
Open-World Sandbox
You can also add your local library to the cheapskate sweepstakes. Print, ebooks, or audio books. You’ll never run out. Might have to wait a bit to get them, but so many books.
What are you reading in 2025?
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My wife and I make extensive use of our local library systems (we live in a place where we have ready access to four). This past Saturday I came home from the library with seventeen novels, it'll take me probably a couple weeks-ish to get through them.
Yes, I wouldn’t have read nearly so many books in the last year without the library and especially Libby (app for borrowing ebooks etc). But the selection here in Vancouver is so much better than in the UK. It really depends how good and accessible your local library is.
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Like half the people here I’ve now read Lev Grossman’s The Bright Sword, and liked it. It’s very much like a modern update of The Once and Future King, with its rich internal worlds of the various characters (I liked Dinadan and Palomides’ stories in particular) and its quite deliberate embrace of anachronism and medieval culture, whether hunting, fashion, or full plate armour. It’s much like Pendragon in that way and I bet Grossman has at least read Greg Stafford’s masterpiece. The story is rich and episodic, and most of the characters are interesting and nuanced. Who’s up for a new Pendragon campaign?
cbwjm
Seb-wejem
I've also recently installed the libby app and hooked into my local library, it's a lot better than I thought it would be. I have some dragonlance novels that I intend to read at some point soon.
overgeeked
Open-World Sandbox
And don’t forget Hoopla. It has all the comics, graphic novels, movies, TV shows, audio, etc.
cbwjm
Seb-wejem
Oh nice, I'll check that out and see if it works down here in nz
It does from Tauranga library at least
Sounds great. Is that Tauranga or Turanga? We were in Christchurch (where the wonderful library is called Turanga) for a year. The Libby selection was excellent.It does from Tauranga library at least
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About Time, Volume 3: The Unauthorized Guide to Doctor Who (Seasons 7 to 11), by Tat Wood. I'm reading these as I watch classic Who for the first time.
These are very detailed, well-researched books, going into behind-the-scenes stuff, lore, etc.
Random Walk, by Rachel Lulick. Bought this directly from the author at a local book store. It's in a sub-genre I love: astronauts in trouble. I'm only a couple chapters in, and so far it's big on well-researched details (the author has some background in...something related - I can't remember), but not big on characterization. It reads like the script for a movie. None of that is a knock; I'm enjoying it so far, but things had better get interesting soon.
The cover design is not great, but the image used in the design is good, and wraps all the way around nicely. I worked in book cover design for a while, and I know self-published books when I see them.
These are very detailed, well-researched books, going into behind-the-scenes stuff, lore, etc.
Random Walk, by Rachel Lulick. Bought this directly from the author at a local book store. It's in a sub-genre I love: astronauts in trouble. I'm only a couple chapters in, and so far it's big on well-researched details (the author has some background in...something related - I can't remember), but not big on characterization. It reads like the script for a movie. None of that is a knock; I'm enjoying it so far, but things had better get interesting soon.
The cover design is not great, but the image used in the design is good, and wraps all the way around nicely. I worked in book cover design for a while, and I know self-published books when I see them.
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